The Goodies

I know I said I'd be taking a break from blogging yesterday, but I can't help myself just for today, an amazing package thanks for Martje from Girly Addictions came in today!!!!!♥ (BTW ILYFOREVERRRRRRR hahaha). A while back, I contacted Martje because she has my lemmings, LE Catrice! So I had to swap with her haha. I received an amazing package today and I'm definitely happy, except for one Catrice who didn't make it in one piece here :( the insides bursted from excitement lolol!

First, here are all the nail babies I received:

• Catrice - Crispy Crimson (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Looking Greyt (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Purposely Purple (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Spruced Up (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Berry Bazaar (Limited Edition Caramé Collection)
• Catrice - Bronzed Brown (Limited Edition Caramé Collection)
• Catrice - Oriental Orange (Limited Edition Caramé Collection)
• Catrice - Absolutely Chinchilly!
• Catrice - Bloody Mary To Go!
• Catrice - Blue My Mind *casualty of delivery*
• Catrice - Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans!
• Catrice - Let's Mauve On!
• Catrice - Wrapped Around My Finger
• Essence Color & Go - Absolutely Stylish
• Essence Color & Go - Choose Me! 
• Essence Multi Dimension - Midnight Rocker
• Essence Multi Dimension - Must-Have
• Essence Multi Dimension - Purple Cherry
• GOSH - Fix Base Coat
• GOSH - Holographic

And here's all the awesome extras♥

• Avène Gentle Milk Cleanser and Gentle Toner
• Chanel - Hyrdamax + Active Serum (x2)
• Dr. Van Der Hoog Cocos Mint Masker Masque
• Hema Lip Gloss 
• Jil Sander Style Soft perfume sample
• Juicy Couture's Couture Couture perfume sample
• Lancome Teint Miracle
• LipSmacker travel mini Vanille Vanilla
• TONS of Mentos Fruits♥ & other chocolates & candies
• Montagne Jeunesse Skin Polisher
• Pickwick Dutch Tea Blend
• Vichy Laboratories Reconditioning Care for Dry Feet

And I was in a frankening mode yesterday and here's a sneak peak of the goods:

P.S. My labels were unorganized so I'm re-labeling all my posts, which will take a while, just putting it out there.

hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did! & happy polishing :)
<3katherine

Fail Mani

So I've been MIA because of finals! :( Studying my butt off and I hope it pays off! Anyways, a while back when I had my first giveaway some people suggested that I should post up fail mani's as well because sometimes not all mani's go the way you want it to! I had this idea for a Christmas/Winter theme where it was white but gray-ish base with glittery top coat over it to make it look like snow. Well, that was a complete fail!

What I used:
Catrice London's Weather Forecast
China Glaze White Out ("sponged" with a bounty LOL)
Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor
China Glaze Nova

hope you enjoyed & happy polishing! (:
<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 7]

Catrice Week Day 7. It's the last day of Catrice week, and like the first day, there will be 2 swatches in this post also. Just to fit all 9 of the ones in my collection that haven't been introduced onto the blog. :)

Catrice Sea of Green

medium green with matte finish. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat (TC on index and ring fingers).

Catrice Sold Out Forever

mint jade green with green shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. One of my favorites! It's said to be the 'dupe' or rather similar to the SOLD OUT, Chanel Jade (one of my biggest lemming!).

hope you enjoyed Catrice week! :)

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 6]

Hello everyone! I hope everyone's having a good day so far. Today after my class, I'm stuck in the library because I was supposed to work but got someone to cover for me thinking my bf didn't have work. After I gave away the shift, I found out he has work & I told my parents I'd be at work so now I'm taking the time to study since final exams are coming! Oh no the horror! :( I must break into nerd mode. But I will be able to post tomorrow to finish off Catrice week but the posts will come out a little slowly after that. I have some recent mani's to show you and I'm trying to think creatively on new nail art for my mani's. Hopefully it'll come to me!

Without further stalling, here's Catrice Week Day 6.

Catrice London's Weather Forecast

greyed blue with shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. Another one of my favorites because I feel like the shimmer makes it so different from other grays.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

P.S. There will be a giveaway when I hit either 250/300 followers, depending on whether I have enough money to pay for the giveaway prize. What giveaway items do you suggest? I'm open to ideas & I'll see what I can get! :D

Catrice Week [Day 5]

Yesterday's hurricane weather let me stay home yesterday and I had so much sleep that my back was aching! :( I didn't know that sleeping too much could cause back pain! I was so in pain that I laid on my bed with more pillows behind me for the incline & laid my laptop on top of a styrofoam bottom that came with the laptop on top of my tummy to watch my dramas! (LOL). I knew that sleeping too much could cause headaches but back pain?! Anyways, my back is feeling much better now, although I woke up late for my class ^____^; and I was late for my second one but I still made it to that one since it's a review class!

Enough blabbering and here's Catrice Week Day 5.

Catrice I Sea You!

dusty turquoise-aqua creme. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 4]

Catrice Week Day 4. The weather is totally crazy outside today; it's raining AND there's crazy wind. SO much that I'm staying home today! :P

Catrice I Scream Peach!

coral orange-pink creme. 3 coats and 1 coat of top coat (you could probably get away with 2 coats though). I actually like this color a lot. It has more pink in real life though.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 3]

Catrice Week Day 3.

Catrice Clay-ton My Hero

light brown taupe with gold shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. I really like how it suits my skintone and shimmers!! Another one of my favorites♥

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 2]

Day 2 of Catrice Week. Today's Catrice is one of my favorite out of my Catrice collection. :D Maybe I'm biased because I love blues! xp

Catrice Blue's Brother

medium ocean blue with light blue shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 1]

Today marks the first out of seven days of Catrice week! I love Catrice and I wish I had all of their nail polishes because they're soo yummy and beautiful! :) Each day this week, I will post up swatches from the ones I own, thanks to swaps! (=

Catrice Be My Millionaire

silver-copper metallic. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

Catrice Big Spender Wanted!

fuchsia pink-red with orange gold shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

The formula and application was easy and excellent, that's why I like Catrice nail polish. ^______^ I wish I could get moreeeeeee haha.

<3katherine

Go Green!

Yay! I took my exam today and now I feel less stressed! (for now..). Today's post is my last awareness post for now, green for depression awareness.

from left to right:

- Zoya Midori - lime green creme with gold shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

- Essie Turquoise & Caicos - turquoise jelly creme. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

- China Glaze Zombie Zest - olive green glitter. 3 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

on another note, I got some nail mail the day before yesterday. :)

China Glaze Poolside Collection (top row)

China Glaze Tuned Up Turquoise
China Glaze Bermuda Breakaway

China Glaze Shower Together

China Glaze Adore

China Glaze Elephantastic Pink

OPI DS Extravagance (extra goodie♥)

Thank you so much Chou Khang!! You got me such an amazing package that got me all giggle-y inside! I hope you enjoy the Inglot palette♥.

annndd

Catrice Clay-ton My hero

Catrice Be My Millionaire

Catrice Blue's Brother

Catrice I Scream Peach!
Catrice Big Spender Wanted!

Catrice London's Weather Forecast

Essie Jackie Oh My

An awesome swap with Kassandra on makeupalley. Totally awesome!!! Looove it.

Overall: I love all my nail mail! I can't wait to try these on♥ Ahh I was so giddy inside when I was opening the packages =P

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Pic. Spam!

Hello all! Today was my first day of classes as a second year in college. It's a long day since I stacked my classes for only Tuesdays and Thursdays and one class on Friday. Public Policy, Great Works of Literature II, Microeconomics, and Introduction to Business. My classes seem good though, I just really need to focus this semester but I will definitely try to keep up with my blog and post a few times a week rather than daily (I simply don't have as much time as the summer) especially since I'm trying to work also when I don't have classes.

Anyways, so I got GREAT NEWS! I WON MY FIRST GIVEAWAY! Second prize but still better than not winning at all. It's from Kristen at OH MY POLISH. I'm so surprised I won because I never won before and I basically lost most of my hope of winning until today!

In addition to winning second prize for Kristen's giveaway, I finally got my sample package from viva la nails and I will be doing a review on them ~ coming soon. But they all look soo good and I'm definitely tempted right now! Haha.

My nails of the day today is Catrice Poison Me, Poison You! I received this in an internatiaonl swap from Make Up Alley. This is my first Catrice and I'm VERY pleased. The manicure is 2 coats of PMPY and 1 coat of Seche top coat. My nails are getting longer but still a little short.

And here are pictures from my mini vacation that I came back from this past weekend:

My baby cousin Allyson on a lounge chair :)

Allyson again, running from the fountain. The funny thing is that she loves playing with the water!

She loves the souvenir bottle and would not share with my cousin Alex~

Allyson and I on a little baby ride that she's able to ride on! She loves sucking on her index and middle finger~

On the car ride from Virginia home to Brooklyn, NY. She loves the camera and everyone spoils her with love because she's so adorable and funny :)♥

Really beautiful sky in the background as we were in Maryland. :)

hope you enjoyed!
<3katherine